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️(he/him) @GramrgednAngel @fifilamoura @mekkaokereke Some books are OK to burn
@whknott I actually think it's important to preserve some of this stuff, we need to understand our past not try to erase it. Especially the horrifying stuff because the horrifying stuff is still around, race pseudoscience is still being pushed in very "esteemed" academic institutions, etc. It needs to be understood that it's a pseudoscience (the fact we still call it "race science" and not "race pseudoscience" is indicative of what a problem it still is). Erasing it only allows it to flourish in darkness. @GramrgednAngel @mekkaokereke
@fifilamoura @whknott @GramrgednAngel @mekkaokereke Yep. You nailed it here, Fifi. As a disabled person who tries to point out to others a lot how embedded eugenics is in US culture, and how long that has been the case, the preservation of this kind of evidence is crucial, Getting rid of evidence like this actually plays directly into fascists' hands. Can't help thinking of recent news about things being removed from national archives exhibits that might be objectionable to conservatives.
@JustGrist @fifilamoura @whknott @GramrgednAngel @mekkaokereke Research libraries do a pretty good job at keeping around sources like those that were once in wide circulation. Most of the online books listed here, for instance, were scanned from research library collections: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=lcsubc&key=Eugenics
Good research collections should also, of course, have a lot more recent critical studies and histories of eugenics, along with primary source materials from past (and present) eugenics movements.